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Liesbeth van Vliet receives 'For Women in
Science'-award for placebo and communication
research

Psychologist Van Vliet investigates which
communication patients and their loved ones need
when they are confronted with serious, often
incurable, diseases. Van Vliet looks at what
communication could help them at those moments,
and what communication could harm. These patients,
in addition to good medical care, also need good
information and emotional support. The main theme
of Van Vliet's research is to better
understand the power of communication at times
when this is the most important thing.

During a festive ceremony in the Royal Holland
Society of Sciences (KHMW), Liesbeth van Vliet
received one of the two Dutch For Women In Science
grants for Life Sciences worth 25,000 euros for
its contribution to science. The Netherlands
Institute for Advanced Study (NIAS) and the
National Network of Female Professors (LNVH) are
the Dutch partners with which L'Oréal
and UNESCO work together.